Originally Posted by archiveuk (Post 839915)

I think the number of regular posters is relativly small, could this be because threads are regularly hijacked be snide, small minded, bigotted, unrelated and generally unfunny comments?

Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 839797)

Originally Posted by kikine (Post 840222)

Gosh. There are enough arguments in real life without having them in virtual life.

Originally Posted by flashy (Post 840345)

and i've just put the washer on

Originally Posted by Less (Post 840387)

Jaysay, this is Summer in England, of course it will rain!

:D

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 840397)

Try putting the wall paper on as well :p:D

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 840392)

If you feel like that about any posts please report them by clicking the red triangle on the left of the post and we will deal with the post

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 840441)

I was helpful enough to give out that advice in post number 70 :D
I like to be helpful to members who appear a little lost and confused.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 840522)

I'm glad somebody has Neil's welfare at heart Margaret:D

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 840558)

Me lost no.

Confused - well that is a different matter :D

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 840558)

Me lost no.

Confused - well that is a different matter :D

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 840581)

I didn't say lost and confused moderators ......moderators are far more than mere members.
(note to Neil....don't let this go to your head :))

Originally Posted by entwisi (Post 840652)

the number of unique posters does seem to be much lower with only a handful of actual posters

Originally Posted by Roy (Post 840326)

Year on year we have 20% higher unique visitors....Whoever is posting, whether it is 5 or 2000 people, it doesn't matter, our readership is higher than ever before, which means the people who actually are posting must be making sense, or they are just interesting to read.

Originally Posted by entwisi (Post 840652)

well i am at least glad i 'provoked' 115 posts

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 840581)

I didn't say lost and confused moderators ......moderators are far more than mere members.
(note to Neil....don't let this go to your head :))

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 840738)

Well, John...it has been known to happen.....compliments sometimes turn heads.....and sometimes inflate ego's too!

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 839742)

Threads are like a conversation in real life...sometimes it meanders off the subject, but usually gets back on track again.

For some people Accyweb is their link to the outside community. Some people who post on here, find it difficult to get out and about, but can keep in touch with what is happening by coming on Accyweb.
Hedman, you could learn to live and let live. If you don't like the forum, then don't visit it...it isn't compulsory to be part of it.

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 840849)

And some of us live a ways off:D

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 840849)

And some of us live a ways off:D

Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J (Post 841015)

Dont post like I used to but always around to have a nosy and see if something is happening. If I have a comment I will put it on or get a good laugh at some even let loose with both barrels once every 3rd blue moon after the 5th green sun and 4th yellow herring. :D

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 840738)

Well, John...it has been known to happen.....compliments sometimes turn heads.....and sometimes inflate ego's too!

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 841022)

Always knew you were a regular trouble maker on here SPUGS:D

Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J (Post 841058)

I take things as they come good or bad. Everyone has an opinion that even if I disagree with I will respect. Takes a lot to rile me into shotgun posts as it is first and foremost a family site.

As for me making trouble or causing it then its as rare as a pinkish elephant. ;) Stirring up aggro can demean the site so if I do I deserve what i get.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 841154)

Howwwweeee Spugs was only pulling your leggy weggy:D:D:D

Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J (Post 841303)

So thats why i was having trouble walking to the chemist. No need for the doc visit now. :D:D:D:D:D

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 841539)

Nah, John....you ought to know by now that Jen doesn't do things by halves.
Hope you are feeling better Jen.

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 841571)

Glad that you are feeling better......wheat bags and Voltarol...a winning team!
Unless you try to rub on the wheat grains and heat up the voltarol......thenits not so good! :).
I'll get my coat.

Originally Posted by hedman2003 (Post 839660)

From my observations as an occaisional contributor I wouldn't say it's particularly healthy

Perhaps some of the reasons are

on some relatively serious issues we get the regulars who think its amusing to go completely off subject and have some injokes with their cronies that the majority of members can't understand (if you want to amuse yourselves why not go on facebook etc)


why do some members feel they have to contribute to every thread with ramblings that add nothing to the thread

this thred starts by asking about accyweb and it develops into a discussion about the merits of plastic glasses rather than the merits of the website

I appreciate that the above comments may not be well received by the incrowd that hog everything on the site. ( I would guess there are no more than 30 people who post more than 90% of the posts)

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 841674)

I think you miss the point with your "injokes with their cronies" remark, which is empty rhetoric anyway, tossed in as critical, rather than as a neutral observation. Perhaps some of us, like myself, use the off-topic banter in order to put a face, a personality, onto a comment or argument. Take out the human interaction, and any thread would be drier than a soda cracker fart.

Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J (Post 841677)

Without the slight off topic input and a bit of ribbing then the fun is taken out of it. A conversation between a group of people in a pub or the street does not follow strict guide lines so the same should apply here. Take away the quirks and the banter then it loses its appeal and would become boring. Some of use get a giggle out of what is said when it meanders from the main stream and that is what makes it what it is on here. Without it it would die slowly as the fun would disappear along with people pretty fast. If it goes too far the mods set us back on course as is there job.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 841704)

after I've gone to that big web site in the sky :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Eric (Post 841674)

I think you miss the point with your "injokes with their cronies" remark, which is empty rhetoric anyway, tossed in as critical, rather than as a neutral observation. Perhaps some of us, like myself, use the off-topic banter in order to put a face, a personality, onto a comment or argument. Take out the human interaction, and any thread would be drier than a soda cracker fart.

Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J (Post 841677)

Without the slight off topic input and a bit of ribbing then the fun is taken out of it. A conversation between a group of people in a pub or the street does not follow strict guide lines so the same should apply here. Take away the quirks and the banter then it loses its appeal and would become boring. Some of use get a giggle out of what is said when it meanders from the main stream and that is what makes it what it is on here. Without it it would die slowly as the fun would disappear along with people pretty fast. If it goes too far the mods set us back on course as is there job.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 841704)

Quite right too Spugs, life is about being able to have a laugh, take away the fun and life is not worth living really, can you imagine Less Beni Me Thee Cashy Mick Grainda Eric, etc, coming on here every day and being totally serious, no me neither, Accy Web has peaks and troughs, ups and downs, old members go new ones take their places and the cycle carries on, and will still be going strong long after I've gone to that big web site in the sky :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 841720)

perhaps one who does not wish topics to contain any banter, n just be totally serious constitutes a Boring Get?:D

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 841716)

Dingle Web?

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 841704)

can you imagine Less coming on here every day and being totally serious,

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 842383)

Well for a couple of hours this afternoon I wasn't sure if Accyweb had died...or if my computer had died(although I didn't think so, because I could log onto other sites) or if I had died.
Try as I might I could not get onto the site......kept getting the DNS Error page.

If you have been away Accyweb, just to say....Glad you are back :D

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 842415)

My goodness aren't we a sad lot?

Originally Posted by Benipete (Post 842439)

You must be.Mick and I were in the "office" when Cashy rang.:D:alright:

Originally Posted by Bossman (Post 842492)

Accyweb will dye if they fall to let people have freedom of speech within the boundries of the law. I posted earlier tonight, only to find the thread had been removed by the "mods" 2 hours later.

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 842496)

it stands a bigger chance of dying if folk post 3 times in 11 months.:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 842535)

Especially when the first of those three posts uses asterisks, to get round the swearing ban. Something that is forbidden, on this family site.

Me thinks someone should perhaps read the forum rules, before commenting on Accy Web's health.

;)

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 842551)

Been off fr 3 days yet your still talking sense G:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 842565)

Were you off for three days with a bump on the head?

Is that why you can now see I always talk sense?

Oh happy day.

:D

Originally Posted by Bossman (Post 842492)

Accyweb will dye

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 842617)

Yes, it probably will...possibly a delicate shade of cerise or perhaps even a rather fetching royal blue?

Originally Posted by Bossman (Post 842492)

Accyweb will dye if they fall to let people have freedom of speech within the boundries of the law. I posted earlier tonight, only to find the thread had been removed by the "mods" 2 hours later.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 842620)

Royal blue?!!!!!

Better red (for Stanley, our sitting M.P.'s party colours, and the county rose) than dead...or royal blue.

:rose8::D:rose8:

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 842624)

OK, how about turkey red dye then? A definite local connection there!

Originally Posted by Less (Post 842445)

Sadly, I was in Roy's office when the call came through about it, we both agreed, which office we would have rather been in.
:o

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 842644)

I thought that was the head teachers office!

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 845492)

No.

Still kicking and screaming.

Even while some attempt to try and nail dowm the coffin lid.

;)

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 845510)

That's what the ex-wife said about me 21 years ago, in "I'm not staying around well they screw the coffin lid down" I may not be throwing snowballs at the moon anymore, but I'm still alive and kicking and hope to be that way for a few more years yet;)

Originally Posted by Less (Post 845566)

Hows the ex-wife?

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 845572)

Still going strong Less,still going strong;)

Originally Posted by Less (Post 845593)

No grave dancing for you then eh?

Oops sorry, no pulling a wheelie in your invalid carriage over some well laid sod then eh?

Life is full of disappointments.

Originally Posted by entwisi (Post 839507)

i ask because today i went to collect my mum to look at a sheltered flat only to find the bottom half of elizabeth stret cordoned off with police standing guard. apparantly someone was stabbed lst night. now i assume that protecting the scene meant they were in a bad way and potentially about to turn in a murder enquiry. yet when i get chance to pop on here there isnt even a mention of it. 2 years ago it would have beeen a 50 + post thread by now.

so is the buzzz and energy no longer here?

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 857013)

Forget grab a granny.

Grab a grant, and get posting. Arty style.

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 857037)

Where would I grab a grant Garinda - I thought they'd all been cut!:D

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 857037)

Where would I grab a grant Garinda - I thought they'd all been cut!:D

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 857130)

You've used your 50/50, and ask the audience.

Your only option left is to phone a friend.

;)

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 857168)

As he got any:D

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 857171)

..that remark is snide....not funny

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 857171)

..that remark is snide....not funny

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 857190)

I thought it was funny, then again I have a sense of humour and can laugh at myself and dont mind people laughing at me if it makes them happy (well usually ;) )

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 857197)

I will be trick or treating your house as about 9 and 10 and 11 and 12 then again at 2am, 3am and 4am :P

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 857201)

That will be a struggle for me - (keeping the pail of pee topped up ready at the bedroom window)

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 857207)

Just pour the pee over his head! :p

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 857201)

That will be a struggle for me - (keeping the pail of pee topped up ready at the bedroom window)

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 857197)

I will be trick or treating your house as about 9 and 10 and 11 and 12 then again at 2am, 3am and 4am :P